Cloud-Based Intelligent User Interface for Cloud Manufacturing: Model, Technology, and Application

2015 ◽  
Vol 137 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Lei Ren ◽  
Jin Cui ◽  
Ni Li ◽  
Qiong Wu ◽  
Cuixia Ma ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
User Interface ◽  
Manufacturing Industry ◽  
Multimodal Interaction ◽  
Cloud Manufacturing ◽  
Domain Specific ◽  
Intelligent User Interface ◽  
Usability Problems ◽  
Key Characteristics ◽  
Industry Practice ◽  
Service Oriented

Cloud manufacturing is gradually transforming the way enterprises do business from traditional production-oriented manufacturing to service-oriented manufacturing. The development of cloud manufacturing in industry practice is closely related to domain-specific user experience. The huge amount of users with diverse roles and various requirements in manufacturing industry are facing great challenges of cloud system usability problems. Thus, user interface issues play a significant role in pushing this new area forward. In this paper, we discuss the key characteristics of intelligent user interface (IUI) for cloud manufacturing, i.e., naturality, smart mobility, self-configuration, and flexible customization. Further, a cloud-plus-IUI model for cloud end-users is presented. Then we discuss the enabling technologies, i.e., automatic configuration based on virtualization, context-aware adaption and recommendation, and multimodal interaction. Finally, we present SketchPart, a sketch-based pad system prototype for searching part drawings in the cloud, to show the advantages of the proposed cloud-plus-IUI solution.

Intelligent User Interface in Cloud Manufacturing

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lei Ren ◽  
Lin Zhang ◽  
Baocun Hou ◽  
Qiong Wu ◽  
Dongxing Teng
Keyword(s):  
User Interface ◽  
Manufacturing Industry ◽  
Multimodal Interaction ◽  
Cloud Manufacturing ◽  
End Users ◽  
Domain Specific ◽  
Intelligent User Interface ◽  
Usability Problems ◽  
Key Characteristics ◽  
Smart Mobility

The idea of cloud manufacturing is gradually transforming the way enterprises do business in this age of globalization. The development of cloud manufacturing is closely linked to domain specific users in manufacturing industry. The huge amount of users with diverse roles and various requirements in manufacturing industry will face great challenges of cloud system usability problems. Thus user interface issues play important roles in this new area. Current research on cloud manufacturing pays more attention to internal cloud while makes light of external end-users’ usability, i.e. user interface issues. In this paper we discuss the key characteristics of Intelligent User Interface (IUI) for cloud manufacturing, i.e., naturality, smart mobility, self-configuration, and flexible customization. Further, a cloud-plus-IUI model for cloud end-users is presented. Then we discuss the enabling technologies, i.e., automatic configuration based on virtualization, context-aware adaption and recommendation, and multimodal interaction.

Theory, supporting technology and application analysis of cloud manufacturing: a systematic and comprehensive literature review

2020 ◽  
Vol 120 (8) ◽  
pp. 1585-1614
Author(s):  
Ming K. Lim ◽  
Weiqing Xiong ◽  
Zhimei Lei
Keyword(s):  
Literature Review ◽  
Manufacturing Industry ◽  
Cloud Manufacturing ◽  
Feature Identification ◽  
Relevant Research ◽  
Research Directions ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Development Status ◽  
Comprehensive Literature Review ◽  
Key Characteristics

PurposeCloud manufacturing (CMfg) is a networked manufacturing mode that promotes the agile, service-oriented, green and intelligent development of the manufacturing industry. Although some scholars have reviewed related studies of CMfg from multiple perspectives, these reviews are not fully systematic or well justified and fail to fully reveal the key characteristics in the development process of CMfg. The purpose of this paper is to systematically review the relevant research on CMfg via identification of key characteristics of definition, architecture, supporting technology and application of CMfg to provide critical information in decision support for the innovation and development of CMfg.Design/methodology/approachThis study systematically reviews the relevant research on CMfg across theoretical methods to technical applications by integrating quantitative and qualitative methods. Word cloud method is used to quantitatively analyse the structure and feature of different definitions of CMfg. The principle of System Science is used to explore the basic components and functions of various CMfg architectures and their common and differing characteristics. A multi-level technology framework is developed to explore the development status of CMfg supporting technologies. A multi-stage application classification is proposed to reveal the application status of CMfg.FindingsThrough literature review, this study found that CMfg architecture is currently dominated by general architectures and lacks architectures that fit the actual enterprise characteristics; CMfg supporting technology is mature in the traditional cloud computing-based technology, but it is still weak in the development of virtualization and servitization technology, service scheduling technology; CMfg application is still in the initial stage and still lacks a relatively complete system application. By analysing the development status of CMfg, this study also identified potential research directions of CMfg in information management, service composition and evaluation, system application and sustainable development and other aspects.Research limitations/implicationsThis paper predominantly focuses on journal articles and some key conference papers published in English and Chinese. Chinese articles account for more than half of the total. The reason is that CMfg was proposed by the Chinese and CMfg is suitable for the development of China's manufacturing industry because of China's intelligent manufacturing environment. It is believed that this research has reached a reliable comprehensiveness that can help scholars and practitioners establish new research directions and evaluate their work in CMfg.Originality/valuePrior literature reviews ignore the identification and analysis of key feature identification for the current development of CMfg, including common and unique feature identification of different CMfg architectures and functions, multi-layer analysis and interpretation of CMfg technology and different stage analysis of CMfg applications. This study addresses these limitations and provides a comprehensive literature review.

scholarly journals Evaluating the Comprehensiveness of VR PLAY Guidelines Using Elder Scrolls: Skyrim VR

2019 ◽  
Vol 63 (1) ◽  
pp. 2287-2291
Author(s):  
Daniel Smith ◽  
Jasmine Granados ◽  
Joel Suss
Keyword(s):  
Virtual Reality ◽  
User Interface ◽  
Development Process ◽  
Control Design ◽  
Heuristic Evaluation ◽  
Interface Elements ◽  
Domain Specific ◽  
Usability Problems ◽  
Game Developers

Heuristic evaluation is a useful tool for non-usability experts to evaluate their product for usability and produce lists of guidelines for product designers to avoid usability problems early in the development process. However, Nielsen’s 10 original us ability heuristics (Nielsen, 1990) only showed to help users find slightly over 50% of the usability problems found by experts. This highlights the need for domain-specific heuristic lists. An example of one of these domain-specific lists is VR PLAY (Desurvire & Kreminski, 2018), a heuristic list to help virtual-reality game developers evaluate their games and adhere to usability principles. The current research evaluated Elder Scrolls: Skyrim VR for usability problems that were then categorized using VR PLAY. Results showed some missing usability principles in VR PLAY, including guidelines for control design, user interface elements, and navigation. This study proposes changes to VR PLAY to include the principles.

Virtualize Manufacturing Capabilities in the Cloud: Requirements and Architecture

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xi Vincent Wang ◽  
Xun W. Xu
Keyword(s):  
Manufacturing Industry ◽  
Cloud Manufacturing ◽  
International Standards ◽  
Functional Requirements ◽  
Distributed Environment ◽  
Paper Manufacturing ◽  
Cloud Resource ◽  
Service Oriented ◽  
Manufacturing Resource ◽  
Manufacturing Technologies

In recent years, Cloud Manufacturing concept has been proposed by taking advantage of Cloud Computing to improve the performance of manufacturing industry. Cloud Manufacturing attempts can be summarized as two sectors, i.e. manufacturing version of Computing Cloud, and a distributed environment that is networked around Manufacturing Cloud. In this paper, manufacturing resource, ability and relevant essentials are discussed in the service-oriented perspective. The functional requirements of a Cloud Manufacturing environment are discussed, along with an interoperable manufacturing system framework. Cloud resource integration models are developed that are compliant with existing international standards. It is possible to achieve a collaborative, intelligent, and distributed environment via Cloud Manufacturing technologies.

Semantic User Interfaces

2012 ◽  
pp. 253-267
Author(s):  
Károly Tilly ◽  
Zoltán Porkoláb
Keyword(s):  
User Interface ◽  
User Interfaces ◽  
System Development ◽  
Reusable Components ◽  
Domain Specific ◽  
Service Oriented ◽  
Program Composition ◽  
Domain Ontologies ◽  
Full Separation ◽  
Oriented Approach

Semantic User Interfaces (SUIs), are sets of interrelated, static, domain specific documents having layout and content, whose interpretation is defined through semantic decoration. SUIs are declarative in nature. They allow program composition by the user herself at the user interface level. The operation of SUI based applications follow a service oriented approach. SUI elements referenced in user requests are automatically mapped to reusable service provider components, whose contracts are specified in domain ontologies. This assures semantic separation of user interface components from elements of the underlying application system infrastructure, which allows full separation of concerns during system development; real, application independent, reusable components; user editable applications and generic learnability. This article presents the architecture and components of a SUI framework, basic elements of SUI documents and relevant properties of domain ontologies for SUI documents. The basics of representation and operation of SUI applications are explained through a motivating example.

Cloud Manufacturing

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 39
Author(s):  
Matthew Sadiku ◽  
Yonghui Wang ◽  
Suxia Cui ◽  
Sarhan Musa
Keyword(s):  
Cloud Computing ◽  
Manufacturing Industry ◽  
Cloud Manufacturing ◽  
Manufacturing Processes ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Collaborative Manufacturing ◽  
On Demand ◽  
The Future ◽  
Service Oriented ◽  
Basic Concepts

Cloud manufacturing is emerging as a new manufacturing paradigm which applies well-known basic concepts from cloud computing to manufacturing processes and deliver shared, ubiquitous, on-demand manufacturing services. It  is an innovative, web-based manufacturing model. It is promising to transform today’s manufacturing industry from production-oriented to service-oriented, highly collaborative manufacturing of the future. This paper provides a brief introduction to cloud manufacturing.

Cloud Manufacturing: An Industry Survey

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tiegang Zang ◽  
Yongkui Liu ◽  
Xun Xu
Keyword(s):  
Resource Sharing ◽  
Manufacturing Industry ◽  
Green Manufacturing ◽  
Cloud Manufacturing ◽  
Industrial Enterprises ◽  
The Status ◽  
Service Oriented ◽  
Model Cloud ◽  
Business Technology ◽  
Technology Trends

The emerging business technology trends such as cloud, Internet of Things, and the new requirements and challenges of future development of manufacturing industry such as green manufacturing and knowledge innovations, have together given rise to a novel cloud-based service-oriented manufacturing business model — cloud manufacturing. Since its inception, cloud manufacturing has attracted much attention of researchers from both academia and industry. As a nascent concept aiming to achieve comprehensive and full resource sharing and e-business collaboration, the success of cloud manufacturing depends heavily on the support and participation of industrial enterprises. However, so far there have been few reports on the status of cloud manufacturing among industrial enterprises. In order to understand the situation of cloud manufacturing in industry, we conducted a survey with respect to its acceptability and application prospect among enterprises located in Jiangsu province, China. This paper presents the results of the survey and some analysis.

Semantic User Interfaces

2010 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 29-43 ◽  
Author(s):  
Károly Tilly ◽  
Zoltán Porkoláb
Keyword(s):  
User Interface ◽  
User Interfaces ◽  
System Development ◽  
Separation Of Concerns ◽  
Reusable Components ◽  
Domain Specific ◽  
Service Oriented ◽  
Program Composition ◽  
Domain Ontologies ◽  
Full Separation

Semantic User Interfaces (SUIs), are sets of interrelated, static, domain specific documents having layout and content, whose interpretation is defined through semantic decoration. SUIs are declarative in nature. They allow program composition by the user herself at the user interface level. The operation of SUI based applications follow a service oriented approach. SUI elements referenced in user requests are automatically mapped to reusable service provider components, whose contracts are specified in domain ontologies. This assures semantic separation of user interface components from elements of the underlying application system infrastructure, which allows full separation of concerns during system development; real, application independent, reusable components; user editable applications and generic learnability. This article presents the architecture and components of a SUI framework, basic elements of SUI documents and relevant properties of domain ontologies for SUI documents. The basics of representation and operation of SUI applications are explained through a motivating example.

Order-Oriented Manufacturing Resource Services Sharing of Building Material and Equipment Enterprise in Cloud Manufacturing

2013 ◽  
Vol 823 ◽  
pp. 565-571 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bai Gang Du ◽  
Shun Sheng Guo ◽  
Yi Bing Li ◽  
Jun Guo
Keyword(s):  
Resource Sharing ◽  
Building Material ◽  
Manufacturing Industry ◽  
Cloud Service ◽  
Cloud Manufacturing ◽  
Remote Collaboration ◽  
Related Services ◽  
Service Oriented ◽  
Manufacturing Resource ◽  
Manufacturing Resources

The cloud manufacturing brings forward a new idea of manufacturing resource sharing with service-oriented. Recent advances in information technology, such as cloud computing, internet of things, make it easier for heterogeneous resources in different regions to remote collaboration in cloud manufacturing. To help improve the success of distributed manufacturing resource sharing for service provider and user in building material and equipment enterprise (BMEE), the order-oriented cloud service library (OCSL) and order-based model for shared manufacturing resources (OMSMR) are proposed after analysing the management features of manufacturing resources in BMEE. The OCSL gives a relationship description between task orders and related services. Moreover, a case study is undertaken to evaluate the proposed model. The model brings into manufacturing industry for manufacturing resource sharing with a number of benefits such as openness, integrity and traceability.

Cloud Manufacturing Platform: Operating Paradigm, Functional Requirements, and Architecture Design

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lei Ren ◽  
Lin Zhang ◽  
Chun Zhao ◽  
Xudong Chai
Keyword(s):  
Manufacturing Industry ◽  
Cloud Manufacturing ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Functional Requirements ◽  
Research Issues ◽  
Reference Design ◽  
Service Oriented ◽  
Manufacturing Platform ◽  
Knowledge Intensive ◽  
Main Components

Cloud manufacturing is emerging as a new promising business paradigm as well as an integrated technical approach, contributing to the shaping of a highly-collaborative, knowledge-intensive, service-oriented and eco-efficient manufacturing industry. The following research issues concerning cloud manufacturing platform, what users can achieve with the platform, what the platform can do, and how to design it, play crucial roles in this new area. This paper proposes a cloud manufacturing paradigm that depicts a typical scenario which can provide an explanation for the concept of cloud manufacturing and makes the mysterious “cloud” transparent. Then the functional requirements of cloud manufacturing platform are investigated to specify design objectives. Based on these, the paper presents the design of MfgCloud, a cloud manufacturing platform prototype. In discussion of the main components of MfgCloud, the specific concepts different from those corresponding terms in IT area are also defined and given their implementation mechanisms. Consequently, this paper proposes a new point of view for the concept of cloud manufacturing, and accordingly presents a reference design of cloud manufacturing platform.

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